# Sr Hardware Development Electrical Engineer at First Order Effects

- Company: First Order Effects
- What the company does: Sovereign-scale infrastructure, at lightspeed. Backed by Space Capital.
- Company website: https://firstordereffects.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Austin
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $140K to $220K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-27
- Apply by: 2026-12-11
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/firstordereffects/0b7319e9-efca-4db8-814b-39be1b7c1d38?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/first-order-effects-sr-hardware-development-electrical-engineer/

## About the role

Own electrical boards end to end: requirements and system trades, architecture, component selection, schematic capture, PCB layout, bring-up, debug, documentation, production release, and test. Do your own layout. You'll be placing parts and routing boards, not handing a schematic to someone else. Stackup, impedance control, power planes, thermal reliefs, creepage and clearance, and DFM for our own floor are your call. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or physics
- 5+ years designing circuits, electronic products, or hardware in industry
- You've taken new boards from a blank schematic through production, not incremental revisions of something that already existed, and you can show us the layouts
- Fluent in at least one ECAD tool (we use KiCad, Altium or similar is fine) and able to manage a shared library and release process
- Sovereignty is built, not declared — come build it with us

Tags: Engineering

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